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Tip: Running a bash script without the terminal window...


This is just a little tip I'd like to share.

It annoyed me for some time, that whenever I ran a bash script, I got a
terminal window whether or not my script needs it. Here is a Visual Basic
snippet that works for me on W2K and XP, and that runs a bash script without
the terminal. I use it to start xterms from windows shortcuts, for instance.
It really can start all kinds of things, also .bat files, if you like...

C:\WINNT\system32\wscript.exe c:\data\scr\quiet.vbs
c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "echo do your bashing stuff here >
/tmp/somefile"

I think all machines have the wscript.exe executable. The VB script is of
course the central element, and here it is:

'
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=OnQwYL0iCHA
.1884%40tkmsftngp10&rnum=14
' from the microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin newsgroup
' But has been modified some by peter@morch.com.

Set oShell = CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell")
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
' Join all the arguments....
for each arg in objargs
        cmd = cmd & """" & arg & """" & " "
next
oShell.Run cmd , 0, runwait


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